Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Member Profile

Total number of comments: 3 (since 2015-02-28 01:33:13)

Sindbaad

Showing comments 3 - 1
Page: 1

  • 5 Surprising Ways Iran is better than Israel
    • Sindbaad 02/27/2015 at 3:36 pm

      Iran lost almost half of its population of some 15 million in the years between 1916 and 1919 to famine and disease because of plundering of its resources by the occupying British and Russian forces. During the WWI Iran was an officially declared neutral country. Watch
      link to youtube.com

    • Sindbaad 02/27/2015 at 3:28 pm

      Iran did occupy small parts of southern Iraq at the final stages of the war but relinquished all occupied territories immediately after cessation of hostilities. How about Israel ? Do I need to answer this question?

  • UK's Channel 4 Schools US Media on How to cover NSA, Snowden
    • Zia 07/13/2013 at 12:23 pm

      Remember Iraq war?
      The places where one could get relatively unreducted news was the BBC and in the US, Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. . Nowadays Aljezira English and RT are places to go for news and views from the othe side. Why are we not blessed by having access to more sites of this sort? Don't tell me we don't deserve it!

Showing comments 3 - 1
Page: 1

Tweet
Share
Reddit
Email

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel's Attack Crossed a Moral Line
  • America's worsening Solar Gap with China, which installs 100 Panels per Second
  • Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
  • How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country
  • Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved